Stability and reliability of lateral GaN power field-effect transistors

JA Del Alamo, ES Lee - IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
GaN electronics constitutes a revolutionary technology with power handling capabilities that
amply exceed those of Si and other semiconductors in many applications. RF, microwave …

Degradation mechanisms for GaN and GaAs high speed transistors

DJ Cheney, EA Douglas, L Liu, CF Lo, BP Gila, F Ren… - Materials, 2012 - mdpi.com
We present a review of reliability issues in AlGaN/GaN and AlGaAs/GaAs high electron
mobility transistors (HEMTs) as well as Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors (HBTs) in the …

Robust surface-potential-based compact model for GaN HEMT IC design

S Khandelwal, C Yadav, S Agnihotri… - … on Electron Devices, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present an accurate and robust surface-potential-based compact model for simulation of
circuits designed with GaN-based high-electron mobility transistors (GaN HEMTs). An …

A comprehensive reliability investigation of the voltage-, temperature-and device geometry-dependence of the gate degradation on state-of-the-art GaN-on-Si HEMTs

D Marcon, T Kauerauf, F Medjdoub… - 2010 International …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, the gate degradation of GaN-based HEMTs is analyzed. We find that the gate
degradation does not occur only beyond a critical voltage, but it has a strong voltage …

Reliability analysis of permanent degradations on AlGaN/GaN HEMTs

D Marcon, G Meneghesso, TL Wu… - … on Electron Devices, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we review and add additional data and understandings on our findings on the
two most common failure modes of GaN-based HEMTs: 1) permanent gate leakage current …

The impact of mechanical stress on the degradation of AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors

S Choi, E Heller, D Dorsey, R Vetury… - Journal of Applied …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
Coupled electro-thermo-mechanical simulation and Raman thermometry were utilized to
analyze the evolution of mechanical stress in AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors …

Reliability studies of AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors

DJ Cheney, EA Douglas, L Liu, CF Lo… - Semiconductor …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors are gaining commercial acceptance for use in
high power and high frequency applications, but the degradation mechanisms that drive …

Reliability of AlGaN/GaN HEMTs: Permanent leakage current increase and output current drop

D Marcon, J Viaene, P Favia, H Bender… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work we report on the two most common failure modes for AlGaN/GaN-based HEMTs:
the gate leakage increase and the output current drop. First, by performing step-stress …

Gate bias dependence of defect-mediated hot-carrier degradation in GaN HEMTs

Y Puzyrev, S Mukherjee, J Chen, T Roy… - … on Electron Devices, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Monte Carlo analysis of hot-electron degradation in AlGaN/GaN high-electron mobility
transistors shows that, for gate voltages corresponding to semi-ON bias conditions, the …

Gate stability of GaN-based HEMTs with p-type gate

M Meneghini, I Rossetto, V Rizzato, S Stoffels… - Electronics, 2016 - mdpi.com
This paper reports on an extensive investigation of the gate stability of GaN-based High
Electron Mobility Transistors with p-type gate submitted to forward gate stress. Based on …